This is a great video. I'm worldbuilding for fun and I'm trying to decide on my setting still and this helped me process what really makes post-apocalypse settings work.
Call me crazy again but is there a possibility that the same video was inadvertently uploaded twice? Either way, it's like hen's teeth running across an Aftermath! player. I recall the look of disgust on my player's faces when they found a file while searching. The finder discarded this treasure. Towards the end of the session the players were wisely setting up to maintain their gear and I asked "who's got a file for that hatchet?" Looks of disgust followed. "For want of a nail" kind of setup, but that nonfiction and life experience bit you mentioned is important. I go back and forth about that survivor aversion to aggression though. Hominids are 1) territorial 2) social and 3) violent. That combination has some pronounced downrange implications when harsh selection pressures are applied. At the same time we have the Amesbury Archer and the Bom Santo cave necropolis which show that isolated groups of humans will accept outsiders. Anyway, thanks for the fine video!
You're once again not crazy. Apologies for the confusion. UA-cam doesn't let you replace a video; you have to create a new one. So when I bumped the volume a bit I had to create this new one. I changed the name and thumbnail to differentiate them, but I should probably also delete the original. I think you're right about the aversion to violence thing. The more you put pressure on humans, the more they'll come into conflict with each other. At the same time, I think the tropes assume that people would all be at each other's throats all the time, which doesn't really bear up to under close scrutiny. Love that file story. Heh heh... one man's trash... .
The audio is much better. Looking forward to the next video
Thanks! Again, appreciate your earlier note.
This is a great video. I'm worldbuilding for fun and I'm trying to decide on my setting still and this helped me process what really makes post-apocalypse settings work.
Glad that you found it helpful, and thank you for letting me know.
Call me crazy again but is there a possibility that the same video was inadvertently uploaded twice?
Either way, it's like hen's teeth running across an Aftermath! player.
I recall the look of disgust on my player's faces when they found a file while searching. The finder discarded this treasure. Towards the end of the session the players were wisely setting up to maintain their gear and I asked "who's got a file for that hatchet?" Looks of disgust followed. "For want of a nail" kind of setup, but that nonfiction and life experience bit you mentioned is important.
I go back and forth about that survivor aversion to aggression though. Hominids are 1) territorial 2) social and 3) violent. That combination has some pronounced downrange implications when harsh selection pressures are applied. At the same time we have the Amesbury Archer and the Bom Santo cave necropolis which show that isolated groups of humans will accept outsiders.
Anyway, thanks for the fine video!
You're once again not crazy. Apologies for the confusion. UA-cam doesn't let you replace a video; you have to create a new one. So when I bumped the volume a bit I had to create this new one. I changed the name and thumbnail to differentiate them, but I should probably also delete the original.
I think you're right about the aversion to violence thing. The more you put pressure on humans, the more they'll come into conflict with each other. At the same time, I think the tropes assume that people would all be at each other's throats all the time, which doesn't really bear up to under close scrutiny.
Love that file story. Heh heh... one man's trash... .